Narrative: Romanian Public R&D System in 2020
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Background
Management structure
Foresight design
Participation
Step 1: Develop future visions
- Key stakeholders were interviewed in order to determine possible Focus Themes for the foresight exercise.
- A Future Workshop was organized. The objective was to determine a set of Focus Themes from the data collected during the interviews. The participants were decision-makers and futurists. Five Focus Themes were identified:
- Information Society Technologies
- Competitiveness through Innovation
- Quality of Life
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Energy and Environment
- A "non-thematic" Focus Theme was added. It's topic was the structural change in the Public R&D System.
- An online survey was used in order to collect data on possible Directions for Investigation within each Focus Theme.
- The data were clustered, and initial lists of possible Directions for Investigation were produced for each Focus Theme.
Step 2: Theme focusing
The final set of Directions of Investigation are selected from the larger set. Each Focus Theme has at least a minimal number of Directions of Investigation. A Negotiation Workshop was organized, with participants representing the system of technology development agents, economic systems, environmental systems, political and administration systems, social support systems. They formed groups and negotiated according to their interest in one or another Focus Theme, rather than the above mentioned affiliations.
The Negotiation Workshop Objective: Select m statements, balanced among p categories, from a larger set of n visionary statements Preliminaries: A large number of statements about the future are collected, grouped and merged into n visionary statements; the n visionary statements are further grouped into p clusters. Participants: 60-100 people, representing a diversity of actors (research system, public administration, private interests, civic society, …). Script:
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Step 3: Focus on demand for research and development
Step 4: Focus on priorities for research and change
INFORMATION SOCIETY TECHNOLOGIES |
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COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH INNOVATION |
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QUALITY OF LIFE |
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SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS |
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ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT |
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Step 5: Focus on visionary objectives
Step 6: Models for the public R&D sector
Step 7: Create a lead vision
Step 8: Prepare for implementing